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[[File:BenFranklinDuplessis.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Benjamin Franklin, c. 1785]]
The Albany Plan of Union, written by Benjamin Franklin, was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.